This Website by
"Hriday Mitra Mandal" aims at building confidence of people at large by
breaking the myths surrounding Cardiac Arrest & Heart Attacks. This site
is a gush of fresh air for those heart patients who are tired of
swallowing medicines and also for those who find themselves in a
financially tight corner by spending their fortune, hence looking for
alternative.

The
technological triumphs in medicine in the 20th and 21st
Centuries outweigh and outclass the aggregate medical achievements of the
entire human past; yet modern man has been denied the elixir, the cure for his
disease and death. An objective survey of medicine’s failures reveals that it is
not that technology per se is ineffective - it does what it is designed to
do - but that what technology solves is trivial, and what it just cannot touch is
crucial, being beyond any technique- extent, evolving, or envisaged. Most of
human diseasing and death is trans - technique.

What is technique, and what is trans - technique?
Technique in medicine is whatever a doctor does a patient, be it diagnosing,
treating or prognosing. It admits of the simplest to the superlatively
sophisticated trans - technique aspects of disease and death are those
innate, ordinary, day to day features of human diseasing and dying that
technique can in no way modify to a patient’s advantage.

‘It is sobering thought that after several decades of research a
number of international conferences and many other meetings, seminars and
symposia, the problem of human malformations remains essentially unchanged’.
Having introduced a symposium with these words, MeKeown, proceeds to chastise
modern medicine further on human malformations- etiology unknown, rate
unchanged, relative contribution to infant mortality greatly increased. Likewise
coronary artery disease, generally manifest as heart attack, has
been attacked by doctors through electronic wizardry enshrined in the ICCUs and
through invasive retubing (bypass) and/or arteriolysis-n-stents (angioplasty).
Of no avail. The ICCUs, wryly described as ‘pressure cookers’ have proved
counter productive, with the patient having a greater chance of dying there than
outside. McIntosh, a past president of the American college of cardiology
commented on coronary bypass that ‘there is no convincing evidence that the
procedure prevents of postpones premature death.’ K. K. Datey, a leading Indian
Cardiologist stated : ‘The five year end results of heart patients with
Conservative medical treatment and bypass surgery are the same.’

The widely read translated Current Medical Diagnosis and
Treatment, 48th edition, 2009 concludes that “the excellent outcome
of patients treated medically has made it difficult to show and advantage with
either revascularization (bypass, angioplasty) approach.” The equally eminent
Clinical Pharmacology 10th edition, 2008 maintains, on cardiac
failure the refrain that relief of symptoms by drugs, does not alter the
prognosis. The famed Bible of medicine, Harrison’s Principles of Internal
Medicine, 17th edition, 2008 has maintained, since the 8th
edition, 1980 that bypass, most probably, relieves symptoms by infarcting
(killing) the ischemic (complaining) Segment of the heart. Ditto, for
angioplasty. The invasion of coronaries by stents, of whatever type, has made
in-stent restenosis the commonest “malignant” disorder today. Invasive
coronarology, like chemotherapy for cancer, offers to the recipient the poorest
therapeutic trade-off.

“It must be clear, therefore, that our therapeutic armamentarium
is limited severely”- Jaffe has emphatically declared about peripheral artery
diseases. Stroke, medically labeled as cerebro-vascular disease, has remained
impervious to all modern modes of medical and invasive management, maintaining
its pristine behavior the world-over, exercising closely comparable
5-year-suvival rates and ‘funeral-rates’, prompting an epidemiologist to suggest
that we had better accept it as but a form of ageing, being as unsolvable and as
irreversible as ageing itself.

The time is up for us to admit that in modern medicine,
technology glitters, but is, often, not gold. Hriday Mitra Mandal has evolved
therapeutic alternatives for Coronary Artery Disease, free of the burden
of drugs and invasive procedure